Maoism

Maoism is a political theory of communism based on the ideology of Mao Zedong, who led the revolution in China in 1949. Maoism covers the state ideology of China from the 1950s until Deng Xiaoping's reforms in the 1970s, and Mao claimed that peasants should be the essential revolutionary class, as they were more suited to establish a socialist society in China than their industrial worker comrades. This sets Maoism apart from Marxism and Leninism, which focus on the rights of the workers, not the peasants.